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  • Chao sprays such naive, elitist verbal diarrhea out of his red-washed mind, sometimes I have to set aside the professionalism for pure honesty:

    Archive 2008-09-01 Phil Razem 2008

  • Chao sprays such naive, elitist verbal diarrhea out of his red-washed mind, sometimes I have to set aside the professionalism for pure honesty:

    Sitting on their hands: Obama, McCain, and China Phil Razem 2008

  • The red-washed dark void that passed Alucius confirmed that death, and that left four.

    Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

  • The children and Clovis had finished supper, and the late spring twilight was red-washed with the steel-mill light, before she was clean and dressed, her bed made, and the room straight.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • A new gown apiece, and black silk kerchiefs to tie over their heads instead of red cotton, and the little cabin new red-washed, and soup in the pot, and a garlic sausage, and a bottle of good, costly liniment for

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • The little two-roomed cabin, the stable where there used to be a cow, the patch of ground planted with onions, had all been bought and paid for by the husband; for he was a thrifty, hard-working Gascon, and had he lived there would not have been one better off, or with a larger family, either in that quarter or in any of the red-washed suburbs with which Gascony has surrounded New Orleans.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • It came about in this way: Anne Marie and she lived in the little red-washed cabin against which she leaned; had lived there alone with each other for fifty years, ever since Jeanne Marie's husband had died, and the three children after him, in the fever epidemic.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • Looking under the branches of the oaks, one could see across the prairie, -- prairie and sea-marsh it was, -- and clearly distinguish another little red-washed house like the Mérionaux, with

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • The home of the head porter was a small house near the river, distinguished from those of his neighbors by its red-washed walls.

    Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

  • The white trim along the paneled and red-washed walls had just been painted, and the staff was making a sport of keeping people from absently brushing against the jambs and baseboards.

    Austin360 - XL Headlines 2009

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